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9/11hpr3430 :: Booting
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- Publication date
- 2021-09-24
- Usage
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
- Topics
- DOS, early PC computing, boot process
- Contributor
- HackerPublicRadio
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 184.7M
Summary: We look in detail at how early PCs booted.
Source: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3430
Original audio: http://archive.org/download/hpr3430/hpr3430_source.flac
Source: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3430
Original audio: http://archive.org/download/hpr3430/hpr3430_source.flac
The boot process is a very particular system for taking a dead hunk of metal and silicon and turning it into an active computer. It is kind of remarkable, and in the DOS environment you really needed to know how it worked.
Links:
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/R/ROM.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/C/CMOS.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/p/power_on_self_test.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/M/MBR.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/k/kernel.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/s/shell.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/i/internal_command.html
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/b/batch_file.html
- https://www.ahuka.com/dos-lessons-for-self-study-purposes/dos-lesson-2-booting/
